[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 11/16/24 3:45 AM, Tim Coates via fpc-pascal wrote:
> I am a little on the fence regarding the comment re neither fish or 
> fowl...
>
> each developer does their own thing in the language - whether that is 
> writing something for platform X or working on database Y etc. 
> Resources for learning are few and far between if you can find them. 
> If you wanted to learn Pascal for web development, should there be 
> something before re learning Pascal fundamentals?
>
> If you ask people in the developer community what they know about 
> "Pascal" what answers would you get?
>
> Do they (people) understand how the language has evolved? What is 
> possible in the language now!
>
> While I don't do much C programming these days, I still read a bit 
> about what has been added.
>
> There maybe announcements in the fpc community, these appear on the 
> forums vs fpc main site? In the news section, the latest entry is 
> regarding the death of Wirth and then one before that was the 2021.  
> This announcement was in 2022...
>
> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,59468.0.html

The Free Pascal wiki has pages for new features that have been added to 
each FPC version, as well as a page, containing any changes that may 
break existing code. These are for trunk:


https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_Trunk

https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk


And you get a pair of these for each stable FPC version as well, e.g. 
for FPC 3.2.2:


https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_3.2.2

https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.2


Best regards,

Nikolay